Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-13
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What 10 the Fact !

II Philadelphia Record, with all its
1scorporation leanings, considers that
1toyovenue bill that was not signed was q
Ge thing anyway, that the corporations
la not care about it, that the failure to sign
nNna IN accident, that the governor is
MT 70 let it be, and that everything is
1Dguly asit u.
The Record thinks that the country
3omnals who think differently are off their
- and do not know much about the
.1natter Of which they speak. Our con-
sasnporary often has profound convic-
M that 1t is right and everyone else
tsmvung. Az 1t has taken possession of the
3 corporation base it considers itself
oguliaxily entitled to warn off all intruders
Z npon this ground.
Theabsolution it gives to the corporations
sd the praise 1t has for the governor anent
~ revenue bill, is Of value to them, but
4 #nsvortheless, in our judgment, is not war.
Il eantpd. The mystery Of the failure of this
I IN may never be uncovered, butt the money
which corporations have won by Its failure
It - become law is Of great amount, and
~ Record makes bad record when it de.
y o'aees that they cared nothing about it.
The bill has been traced directly into the
hands Of the chief clerk Of the Senate, Mr..
Z Cochran, by the affidavit of Message Clelk
Taylor, who swears he gave 1t to him. Mr..
Cochran declares he never got it from him.
Upon the question as to which of the two
& statements is correct, it is sufficient to rec
Cllect that Taylor swears to an affirmative
y md Cochran to negative; that the latter
# could not swear that he had not received
y tho bill unless 1t was his invariable habit to
b e9amine every lhepassed to the presi-
~ e9thea Senate for signature; and that
esis was his habit, and the bill did not
como to him, there could have been no "ac-
cident" in its failure, but on the contrary
very deliberate purpose; for the message
clerk is perjured liar, who has maliciously
refrained from obtaining the signature to
{ this bill which he broadly declares he passed
TO Chief Clerk Cochran, knowing what it
va, and that he received it back from him
With the understanding that it was signed.
The Record fails to note that when Chief
Clerk Cochran says that this is not true,
4 and that he never received the bill, the
theory OF an accidental omission Of the sig
unture receives its death blow. Message
Z Clark Taylor lies or Chief Clerk Cochran;
4 md the one who lies, is an agent in adeliber.
ate plot to omit the signature; and it is not
[ Important to the issue as to which one lies.
0fT. Taylor is said to be a man Of good
4 character, and SO is Mr.. Cochran; the great
difference between them, however, being
4 that Taylor was a novice in legislative
work beside being naturally somewhat
4 1Sesh and green and easily imposed upon; !;
while Cochran is very old "stager" in
legislative work, knowing all its ins and
outs, It's tricks and games, and the last
man around the capital to fall victim to
X anybody else's vile or to suffer mishaps by
accident"
We should like to believe with the Record
MT this bill failed by accident, and with
Il + and the governor that the failure does
lotdo any damage anyhow but We know
ehAt the governor unnecessarily made
o0ective q mysterious failure of sigma
ture which was not at all necessarily fatal
- tt; we know that the failure was very
lCo6table to corporations of the state ;
md We are not inclined to believe that
y thoee was no malice in it when we find the
81 neGage clerk swearing that he gave it to
Il ~ chief clerk and the chief clerk swearing
thAt he did not if he did, it was not an
oeoident that 1t failed to be signed 4; If he
~ not, 1t was not; because Message Clerk
Taylor cannot he said to be simply mis-
Ii Ken, but must be said to deliberately
~ when he claims to recollect that
- gave this particular bill to Chief Clerk
Cochran, who says he did not receive it,
I'D was not In the habit of receiving bills
~ the presidents signature. Mr.. Coch.
m cuts himself off in this declaration
Som any supposition that he received the
I'M IN ordinary course OF business without
1owing what 1t was. He admits no such
nlbility; he did not have the bill, ani
1emAge Clerk Taylor swears falsely whe,
onys he did; and that is the question.
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